Cooper, J. California: 1931 - 2014

Family, 1991 - Information about the Book

  • General Information
    • The novel tells the story of multiple generations of African-American slaves from the point of view of the dead Clora, who killed herself and tried to kill her four children in order to escape slavery.
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  • Reviews
    • Publishers Weekly. "With power and grace, Cooper weaves the dialect, style and myths of the South into a portrait of the hell that was slavery."
    • Washington Post. "The book suffers from a flat first-person narrative that does not allow the characters to take life." February 7, 1991
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